Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Citations/Enable Citoid to generate citation from a PDF link/Proposal

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  • Problem: Citoid doesn't solve the url when the link is a PDF document, giving an error message.
  • Proposed solution: Enable citoid to get the metadata from the PDF and fill the fields required.
  • Who would benefit: All editors, especially the users of the VisualEditor.
  • More comments: As user Mvolz commented, maybe it is tricky to automatically assign which kind of cite corresponds to the file (journal, book, etc). If the metadata doesn't provide this information, a solution could be to let the user select the appropriate one.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T214038 (also related phab:T136722)
  • Proposer: Alexcalamaro (talk) 17:03, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]